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Do You Treat Heart Disease Differently in Women?

Do You Treat Heart Disease Differently in Women? (0:21)

Women present with heart disease differently than men—yet another way that men and women are different. In this video, HealthMaker Jeff Olgin, MD, a cardiologist at UCSF, explains why cardiac care takes gender into account.

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Yeah, you do things differently. In part because women present differently, their symptoms are often different, their EKG changes can be a little different. And most of the textbooks, and classic symptoms were written around men because they were the most prevalent, and that was what was first described.